The Quad Urbanist

 Let's start out our series on immigration with the capital of a country that's famous for not really accepting outsiders : Paris, F...

There's a certain brand of writing about cities that plays a particular game of sleight of hand: conflating the statistical realities of...

 Look, I can't help it if just when I'm starting talking about cities and immigration, I happen to go to a city where ICE is activel...

Today I want to introduce something I'm planning on featuring on this blog for the next little while--probably not as consistently or fo...

There's a longstanding concept of streetcar suburbs: in the US context, usually former streetcar suburbs, but still. These are inner-rin...

So when you walk around the Quad Cities, it is unusual, except at very specific times of day (school out-time, major events, etc.) to encoun...

 So when we talk about walkability, a basic question we need to consider: who walks? That is, who actually is going to be walking on the sid...